" .... (including persuading my teenage son, who’s much more nimble than me, to lie upside down with feet through to the backseat & his head in the driver’s footwell to refit the fiddly torx screws under the cowl!)"....

Oh memories of my first girlfriend ..........car .......

Presumably memories are the only thing that someone who goes on ‘single’ road trip adventures has got left in that department...!

you will be surprised. I am a true gent, I always wave good bye ............ when leaving her there.

...as you set off without your ‘Daisy’, towing a caravan made for for one..!